Paul Solman: And how about kids that are not in school, what percentage of them ages 16 to 19 are not working now?

Andrew Sum: Over half. If you're a high school dropout you're talking about 30 percent working. Among high school grads who graduated from high school in the last three years -- we do a separate survey of them the fall after graduation -- 45 percent of them held a job, the lowest in the last 50 years we've been collecting this data. And to make it worse, of that 45 percent, only half of them were able to get a full-time job. Only one in five young high school grads, not in college, [is] working full-time.

....

Andrew Sum: Terribly. We used to be a world leader on putting young people to work. In the last 10 years we've moved from the fifth best to the 13th in a pack of 24 OECD [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, meaning post-industrial] countries. The United States is no longer a leader.

Also lowest employment rate of high school graduates — worst in 50 years.

“Andrew Sum: Over half. If you’re a high school dropout you’re talking about 30 percent working. Among high school grads who graduated from high school in the last three years — we do a separate survey of them the fall after graduation — 45 percent of them held a job, the lowest in the last 50 years we’ve been collecting this data. And to make it worse, of that 45 percent, only half of them were able to get a full-time job. Only one in five young high school grads, not in college, [is] working full-time. “

A cynical person might see policies being proposed as an admission by the elites that the black underclass has outlived it's usefulness and they are preparing to replace them with a better class of poor person.

Maybe they want riots, from GZ trial or whatever, to begin the process of thinning the herd, along with abortion and violent crime.

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posted on 07/06/2013 1:21:27 PM PDT
by Trailerpark Badass
(There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)

If you watched Hannity last night, there are a lot of conservative blacks who are opposed to the amnesty bill. They are really trying to change the minds of others who are auto set to vote for the (d) ticket.

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posted on 07/06/2013 1:22:45 PM PDT
by Arrowhead1952
(The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)

A cynical person might see policies being proposed as an admission by the elites that the black underclass has outlived it's usefulness and they are preparing to replace them with a better class of poor person.

I have thought this for a while too, that instead of the ruling class adhering to the wishes of the electorate, that the ruling class is voting in a new electorate that will support their policies better.

The left has been in control long enough to change this situation - if it wanted to. It doesn’t. It deliberately created an unhappy underclass and turned it against another segment of the country. It told the underclass that it wasn’t responsible for its self-inflicted pathologies, and that another segment of the country is responsible.

The left wants it this way.

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posted on 07/06/2013 1:55:03 PM PDT
by I want the USA back
(If I Pi$$ed off just one liberal today my mission has been accomplished.)

It deliberately created an unhappy underclass and turned it against another segment of the country.

Which is exactly why the schools won't teach any black American history other than slavery. If blacks understood how big a role both free and slave alike played in building America, they might just replace some of that resentment with pride.

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posted on 07/06/2013 2:05:26 PM PDT
by cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)

All the entry level jobs have become career paths for illegal aliens. Why hire a teenager who will expect a promotion in a year when you can hire an illegal alien who will work for minimum wage for a decade and never expect more?

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posted on 07/06/2013 2:27:30 PM PDT
by P-Marlowe
(There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)

There might have been an event seventy years ago aside from passing the big tax cut...or he might be referring to when this type of data was first collected. You know...like the hottest global temperature ever (since we first were able to kind of get a global temp reading in 1979).

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posted on 07/06/2013 7:17:45 PM PDT
by lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)

That can get you killed while earning way less than minimum wage. What a messed up system. Had the KKK designed a progrom to destroy black America they couldn’t have beaten the Democrats and their “Great Society”.

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